Are Your Parents Pressuring You To Get Married? At Least They're Not Doing THIS!

Maybe your parents really want to see you happily married, so your dad tries to hook you up with his poker buddy’s son. Or your mom gives your phone number to the nice new fellow in the dentist’s office.

Well, in China, the parents of unmarried men and women congregate every Saturday in the corner of People’s Park in the center of downtown Shanghai. Each set of parents brings a stack of paper flyers describing what’s, um, up for grabs.

For example,

Available: 27-year-old female. Seeking: Man born between 1979 and 1983, 1.76-1.88 meters tall. Must live in Shanghai and have good job. Owning own apartment a definite plus, possibly required depending on other qualifications. Objective: friendship, perhaps matrimony.

The parents make the rounds, size up the competition, and if there’s a “love connection,” they exchange numbers. The children being pimped out aren’t present for the “transaction.”